NAHB Housing Affordability Index:
Major US Metropolitan Areas:
2000 Quarter 1
The National Association of Home Builders Housing Affordability Index measures the percentage of homes sold that a median income family in
a metropolitan area can buy.
|
Metropolitan Area (CMSA or MSA) |
Component (PMSA) |
Housing Afforabiility Index |
Variance from Average |
|
Atlanta |
|
74.9 |
19.3% |
|
Austin |
|
57.5 |
-8.4% |
|
Boston |
|
51.3 |
-18.3% |
|
Buffalo |
|
75.4 |
20.1% |
|
Charlotte |
|
67.2 |
7.0% |
|
Chicago |
|
61.7 |
-1.8% |
|
Cincinnati |
|
76.7 |
22.1% |
|
Cleveland |
|
74.4 |
18.5% |
|
Columbus |
|
71.2 |
13.4% |
|
Dallas-Fort Worth |
Dallas |
65.3 |
4.0% |
|
Dallas-Fort Worth |
Fort Worth |
74.0 |
17.8% |
|
Denver |
|
58.5 |
-6.8% |
|
Detroit |
|
61.4 |
-2.2% |
|
Grand Rapids |
|
76.1 |
21.2% |
|
Greensboro |
|
74.3 |
18.3% |
|
Hartford |
|
75.1 |
19.6% |
|
Houston |
|
66.2 |
5.4% |
|
Indianapolis |
|
81.0 |
29.0% |
|
Jacksonville |
|
75.5 |
20.2% |
|
Kansas City |
|
82.1 |
30.7% |
|
Las Vegas |
|
67.2 |
7.0% |
|
Los Angeles |
Los Angeles |
40.2 |
-36.0% |
|
Los Angeles |
Orange County |
41.3 |
-34.2% |
|
Los Angeles |
Riverside-San Bernardino |
57.3 |
-8.8% |
|
Memphis |
|
73.5 |
17.0% |
|
Miami |
Fort Lauderdale |
74.8 |
19.1% |
|
Miami |
Miami |
58.8 |
-6.4% |
|
Milwaukee |
|
74.0 |
17.8% |
|
Minneapolis-St. Paul |
|
78.4 |
24.8% |
|
Nashville |
|
75.0 |
19.4% |
|
New Orleans |
|
67.2 |
7.0% |
|
New York |
Bergen-Passaic |
54.2 |
-13.7% |
|
New York |
Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon |
63.6 |
1.3% |
|
New York |
Nassau-Suffolk |
70.6 |
12.4% |
|
New York |
New York |
42.1 |
-33.0% |
|
New York |
Newark |
53.6 |
-14.6% |
|
Norfolk-Virginia Beach |
|
70.0 |
11.5% |
|
Oklahoma City |
|
77.5 |
23.4% |
|
Orlando |
|
73.6 |
17.2% |
|
Philadelphia |
|
59.0 |
-6.1% |
|
Phoenix |
|
69.5 |
10.7% |
|
Pittsburgh |
|
67.0 |
6.7% |
|
Portland |
|
32.9 |
-47.6% |
|
Raleigh-Durham |
|
64.8 |
3.2% |
|
Rochester |
|
76.4 |
21.7% |
|
Sacramento |
|
53.5 |
-14.8% |
|
Salt Lake City |
|
59.8 |
-4.8% |
|
San Antonio |
|
63.3 |
0.8% |
|
San Diego |
|
30.1 |
-52.1% |
|
San Francisco |
Oakland |
32.1 |
-48.9% |
|
San Francisco |
San Francisco |
10.3 |
-83.6% |
|
San Francisco |
San Jose |
18.3 |
-70.9% |
|
Seattle |
|
47.2 |
-24.8% |
|
St., Louis |
|
73.6 |
17.2% |
|
Tampa-St. Petersburg |
|
76.5 |
21.8% |
|
Washington-Baltimore |
Baltimore |
74.1 |
18.0% |
|
Washington-Baltimore |
Washington |
77.1 |
22.8% |
|
Average |
62.8 |
0.0% |
Derived from National Association of Home Builders data.
Metropolitan areas and components over 1,000,000 population.
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